Download or read book The Great Pool Table Heist of Arizona written by Mose Duane and published by Phoenix Billiards. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With most of the police force of Upland, Arizona out of town, conman Burdick and his gang (Janet, his Navajo girlfriend; Rubin, a burglar 'extraordinaire' who lives with his mother; Carlos a car thief; Glover a loner living off government aid; and Doc, retired from Northern Arizona University and bored) bungle their way to a possible two-hundred thousand dollar cash booty hidden in a very strange place. They set up camp in a dilapidated barn where they confront and contend with Obama (an exceptionally large rooster and his hens, the Dixie Chicks).
Download or read book A Rookie s Guide to Buying or Selling a Pool Table written by Mose Duane and published by Phoenix Billiards. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buying or Selling a Pool Table analyzes the aspect and makeup of most pool tables including rails, playing surface, frames, cabinets, finish, cushions, pockets, cloth, and accessories. It presents valuable insights and inserts titled Buyer Tips, Seller Tips, and Words of Experience that could potentially save a buyer or seller hundreds if not thousands of dollars. The book explains the difference between cabinets and frames, all-wood, particle board, and hardwood, finishes and laminates, and the difference between three kinds of rails and how they are attached to the table. And which of those are the best, and why.
Download or read book Pussy Willows A Bigg Dick Novel written by Mose Duane and published by Phoenix Billiards. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Investigator Richard 'Bigg Dick' Bigg, while taking a break from a dead-end Las Vegas suicide case of a lover and ex-Vegas girl, attends a private Nine-Ball tournament on the Mogollon Rim in northern Arizona. A fellow competitor is shot and plunges a thousand feet over the rim to his death, and longtime friend, JC Forkner, is charged with the murder. Dick must prove JCs innocence and runs into another dead-end case. Dick is also sidetracked by a green-eyed beauty until, after two more deaths, the truth is revealed and with mayhem, carnage, and luck, the murderers are brought to justice in the only way possible.
Download or read book A Rookie s Guide to Pool Table Assembly written by Mose Duane and published by Phoenix Billiards. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for this manual came about with the realization that far too many people are talked out of assembling their own pool table because we “professionals can do a better job.” Nothing could be farther from the truth. Assembling a pool table is not hard, and with a little insight and this manual, any novice should be able to do a proficient job in an afternoon.
Download or read book A Rookie s Guide to Pool Table Maintenance and Repair written by Mose Duane and published by Phoenix Billiards. This book was released on 2023-05-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A straightforward guide to repairing any Pool Table and accessories including dismantling, moving, assembly, re-covering, installing new cushions, shipping.
Download or read book A Rookie s Guide to Playing Winning Pool written by Mose Duane and published by Phoenix Billiards. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what your level of pool playing ability is, Playing Winning Pool will entice you into thinking in different terms, or reinforce some of your own thoughts, which will make you a better player. The book starts with Game Fundamentals then gives some excellent Practice Shots to put the fundamentals into play. It then covers game winning Elements and Strategies covering Nine Ball and Eight Ball. And, finally, it goes over some important Mental Fundamentals of the game in terms of winning. It is well-illustrated, with some Fun Shots to Try suggestions and filled with Winning Tip sidebars.
Download or read book Something Substantial written by Mose Duane and published by Phoenix Billiards. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mid-October 1999, Jaclyn Ramsey escapes from a southern Arizona jail of Dos Caballos. Town Marshal John Buckner orders his inept deputy Gilbert Chávez hunt for her with instruction to return her to jail alive so no one will know of her escape. Jaclyn returns to the northern Arizona town of Upland to exact retribution on her beautiful double-crossing partner Sherri Denny, but only after she gets her hands on her share of their ill-gotten drug money. Jaclyn has also sworn vengeance by way of death against the Chief of Police of Upland. College student Rosie River, an excellent natural pool player, is also sent to Upland to locate Jaclyn and Sherri in case Chávez fails. Mayhem pursues as Upland police officers Nina Miller and Pike Tso try to solve a murder while the town is upended by a documentary of the pool playing legend JC Forkner.
Download or read book Coyote Stands written by Mose Duane and published by Phoenix Billiards. This book was released on 2023-05-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holly Forkner disappears. Police Chief Troy Forkner, Holly's husband, scours the wilderness looking for her. Officer Nina Miller believes the perpetrator is hiding Holly nearby. Officer Pike Tso, a Navajo Indian, believes Navajo spirits may have abducted Holly. Sheriff's Deputy Thomas Justman takes advantage of the situation and implicates a loner Indian in the disappearance. Meanwhile, JC Forkner, Troy's brother, is once again involved in a pool game wagering something substantial.
Download or read book Last Chance written by Mose Duane and published by Phoenix Billiards. This book was released on with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 10, 2015 "JC" Forkner, an aging and washed-up pool player, steals cash from an unprofessional hitman named Black Berry. He wants it back. The money, however, originally belonged to Juan Hernandez and the Mexican Cartel. They want it back. The stakes and out come of a nine-ball game in the back room of an old Arizona saloon called the Last Chance turns the town into a circus, and brings JC full circle to where it all began for him.
Download or read book Playing Off the Rail written by David McCumber and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 17, David McCumber was stricken with "road fever" that irresistible call to the itinerant life of a professional gambler. Twenty-two years later, he got the chance to follow that dream-not as a player but as the "stakehorse" (financial backer) for Tony Annigoni, a non-smoking, macrobiotic-eating "Renaissance Pool Hustler," student of Eastern religion, and master of the pure green-felt poetry of the dead stroke." With $27,000 in David's pocket they took off together on an astonishing four-month odyssey across America-traveling from seedy, hole-in-the-wall billiard parlors to high-class snooker rooms to high-tension pro tourneys, from Seattle to Miami and back again-exploring a shady twilight subculture and uniquely American mythos, in search of serious money, local glory...and the perfect hustle.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure written by Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Standards of Conduct Office of the Department of Defense General Counsel's Office has assembled an "encyclopedia" of cases of ethical failure for use as a training tool. These are real examples of Federal employees who have intentionally or unwittingly violated standards of conduct. Some cases are humorous, some sad, and all are real. Some will anger you as a Federal employee and some will anger you as an American taxpayer. Note the multiple jail and probation sentences, fines, employment terminations and other sanctions that were taken as a result of these ethical failures. Violations of many ethical standards involve criminal statutes. This updated (end of 2009) edition is organized by type of violations, including conflicts of interest, misuse of Government equipment, violations of post-employment restrictions, and travel.
Download or read book The Violin Conspiracy written by Brendan Slocumb and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world. “I loved The Violin Conspiracy for exactly the same reasons I loved The Queen’s Gambit: a surprising, beautifully rendered underdog hero I cared about deeply and a fascinating, cutthroat world I knew nothing about—in this case, classical music.” —Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and Hour of the Witch Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way. Not his mother, who wants him to stop making such a racket; not the fact that he can’t afford a violin suitable to his talents; not even the racism inherent in the world of classical music. When he discovers that his beat-up, family fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, all his dreams suddenly seem within reach, and together, Ray and his violin take the world by storm. But on the eve of the renowned and cutthroat Tchaikovsky Competition—the Olympics of classical music—the violin is stolen, a ransom note for five million dollars left in its place. Without it, Ray feels like he's lost a piece of himself. As the competition approaches, Ray must not only reclaim his precious violin, but prove to himself—and the world—that no matter the outcome, there has always been a truly great musician within him.
Download or read book Spare Parts written by Joshua Davis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers, one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion picture In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the Marine Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where they attended an underfunded public high school. No one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they might amount to much—but two inspiring science teachers had convinced these impoverished, undocumented kids from the desert who had never even seen the ocean that they should try to build an underwater robot. And build a robot they did. Their robot wasn't pretty, especially compared to those of the competition. They were going up against some of the best collegiate engineers in the country, including a team from MIT backed by a $10,000 grant from ExxonMobil. The Phoenix teenagers had scraped together less than $1,000 and built their robot out of scavenged parts. This was never a level competition—and yet, against all odds . . . they won! But this is just the beginning for these four, whose story—which became a key inspiration to the DREAMers movement—will go on to include first-generation college graduations, deportation, bean-picking in Mexico, and service in Afghanistan. Joshua Davis's Spare Parts is a story about overcoming insurmountable odds and four young men who proved they were among the most patriotic and talented Americans in this country—even as the country tried to kick them out.
Download or read book National Library Service Cumulative Book Review Index 1905 1974 Authors A Z written by National Library Service Corporation and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Information Theory Inference and Learning Algorithms written by David J. C. MacKay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-25 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information theory and inference, taught together in this exciting textbook, lie at the heart of many important areas of modern technology - communication, signal processing, data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational neuroscience, bioinformatics and cryptography. The book introduces theory in tandem with applications. Information theory is taught alongside practical communication systems such as arithmetic coding for data compression and sparse-graph codes for error-correction. Inference techniques, including message-passing algorithms, Monte Carlo methods and variational approximations, are developed alongside applications to clustering, convolutional codes, independent component analysis, and neural networks. Uniquely, the book covers state-of-the-art error-correcting codes, including low-density-parity-check codes, turbo codes, and digital fountain codes - the twenty-first-century standards for satellite communications, disk drives, and data broadcast. Richly illustrated, filled with worked examples and over 400 exercises, some with detailed solutions, the book is ideal for self-learning, and for undergraduate or graduate courses. It also provides an unparalleled entry point for professionals in areas as diverse as computational biology, financial engineering and machine learning.
Download or read book Pool Wars written by Jay Helfert and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jay's recollection of pool stories exceeds any that I've ever heard. His exactness in recalling events as they actually happened is amazing. There are few as qualified to write about pool action as Jay. He has always been right on the money with everything he has accomplished and this book isn't any different." -World 9-Ball Champion Billy Incardona "I've known Jay since the 60's. Although he loved to compete, he became more respected as a great game maker and money winner who helped out many a pool player when down on their luck." -World All Around Champion Danny Diliberto "Jay is the 'go to' man in pool. He is a living historian and a source for all pool info. As an accomplished player himself, he evolved into every aspect of the sport. He has given sage advice to up-and-coming players as well as champions. Jay is a valued member of the pool community who gets a nod and a smile from all who know him." -Pat Fleming, ACCU-Stats Video Productions
Download or read book The Criminal Investigation Process written by Peter W. Greenwood and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
